Their bill is the first amendment expected to the gun bill before the Senate next week.

“HERE’S WHY THE MANCHIN-TOOMEY-KIRK-SCHUMER AMENDMENT IS GOOD FOR GUN OWNERS” the office of the former Club for Growth president said in an email shortly after noon.

EXAMPLE #1

1) The Manchin-Toomey-Kirk-Schumer amendment expressly prohibits a national registry and goes one step further by requiring 15 years in jail for any government official who attempts to keep such a list. In other words, this amendment makes it harder – not easier — to create a federal registry than under current law.

Schumer and Kirk are leaving the talking up to Toomey and Manchin.

An hour and a half later from Toomey’s office, “HERE’S WHY THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT IS GOOD FOR GUN OWNERS.”

3) The Public Safety and 2nd Amendment Rights Protection Act allows interstate sales of handguns, which is banned now.

All messages included a link to encourage recipients to read the bill.

Manchin did his part for the full-court press, sending out a fact sheet, “Manchin-Toomey Amendment Protects Second Amendment Rights of Those Who Have Served Our Country”:

FACT – This amendment fixes an outdated law and allows active duty service members and their spouses to purchase guns in their home state, as well as their duty station. Current law unfairly restricts them to only buying guns in the state where they are stationed.

FACT – This amendment requires notification of veterans who have already been placed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by the Department of Veterans Affairs; some veterans may not even know they are in NICS. Once they are notified, the amendment allows every veteran in NICS to appeal for removal. There are currently over 150,000 veterans in NICS because they have had a fiduciary – someone to manage their finances – designated for them.

FACT – This amendment helps reduce the stigma surrounding PTSD by creating a fair appeals process for veterans who may have been wrongly or automatically categorized as unfit to own or purchase firearms.

FACT – This amendment establishes an appeals process for veterans by allowing them to appeal to an independent board or a court before being placed in the NICS system.

FACT – This amendment protects a veteran’s right to bear arms until he or she has exhausted the appeals process, which is different from the current system in which veterans are “guilty until proven innocent.”

Additional bill facts:

This amendment will not ban any kind of weapon, magazine, or ammunition.

This amendment will not create a national registry (in fact, it explicitly prohibits it). Those who attempt to create a registry face up to 15 years in prison.

“I’ll examine each amendment to determine whether it strengthens or infringes upon our Second Amendment rights,” Alexander said. “The Toomey-Manchin proposal to expand background checks in my opinion doesn’t meet that test and I will vote against it.”

Alexander’s office stressed his “A” rating from the NRA.

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I see a bill that is going to be widely ignored in our future. ..... if they wanted to show how irrelevant they could be they could not have picked a better vehicle for it.

Siure there are some good things they can point to - but those good things are completely undermined by the increased regulations they want to impose on someone even trying to pass down a gun to a family member.

The definition of insanity is placing your hand in fire over and over again eash time expecting this time you won't get burned.

The Republicans are insane. They keep making deals with the Democrats giving the Dems what they want whilst giving up their own principles. Then the Dems use that victory as a stepping stone for the next and the Republicans fall for it again, and again, and again. Eventually the Democrats have all that they want and the Republicans sit around scratching their heads wondering what happened.

Until Republicans learn to work together and play the long game like the Democrats the country is doomed. It probably already is though since Democrats already have a nearly complete lock on power with a ruined economy, Obamacare and soon legalization of millions of illegal (who will be put on welfare and Obamacare to capture them), to cement that power. With this bill and others based on it will take away guns, except for the police and Obama's thugs and we really will be Venezuela.

The Cloture vote passed by 16 Republicans means that whatever happens on amendments [and whatever does happen will be in accordance with what the majority Democrats want] the underlying bill is guaranteed to pass. It does not matter if Alexander or any other Republican now

“I’ll examine each amendment to determine whether it strengthens or infringes upon our Second Amendment rights,” Alexander said. “The Toomey-Manchin proposal to expand background checks in my opinion doesn’t meet that test and I will vote against it.” because they gave away the entire bill already.

And all that Reid promised is that he will allow the MANCHIN-TOOMEY-KIRK-SCHUMER amendment to be brought up, and brought up first. When the Democrat majority votes it down in minutes, because "it is good for gun owners", we will see the depth of the betrayal.

You are making the assumption that "it dies in the House". So far this session, in every confrontation with the Left, Speaker Boehner and 30-40 of his minions have voted WITH THE DEMOCRATS and against the majority of the Republican Caucus to let the Democrats win.

A couple of days ago in the Washington Post, Boehner openly stated that he does not believe in the Hastert Rule, and they he may vote against the caucus again on both immigration and gun control.

After Obamacare got through the Senate, they said it would be stopped in the House. After it passed the House, they said the Supreme Court would kill it. Depending on either Institutional Republicans or the courts to stand with the Constitution is a fool's game.